# jaʼ
## Akatek
### Noun

jaʼ
* water

### References

* Susanne Schüle, Perception verb complements in Akatek, a Mayan language, citing Zavala (1992)

## Chol
### Noun

jaʼ
* water

### References

* Chol Texts on the Supernatural (1965), page 159

## Ch'orti'
### Alternative forms

* haʼ

### Noun

jaʼ
* water

### References

* Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala, Chʼortiʼ - castellano, page 35, 2000

## Itza'
### Noun

jaʼ
* water

### References

* Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala, Itza - castellano, page 31, 2010

## K'iche'
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /xaːʔ/

### Noun

jaʼ
* water
* liquor

#### Related terms

* amaʼ jaʼ (“liquor; aguardiente”)
* -be jaʼ (“riverbed”)
* binel jaʼ (“rivulet; stream; river”)
* binik p-wiʼ ri jaʼ (“to float”)
* boq jaʼ (“to sweat”)
* bulqʼat jaʼ (“flood”)
* chuqʼlij ri jaʼ (“to splash”)
* el jaʼ (“to sweat”)
* el jaʼ cho -palaj (“to sweat on face”)
* el pa jaʼ (“to sweat”)
* jaʼ poqʼ (“water blister”)
* jaʼ tew (“frozen”)
* jaʼ -wäch (“liquid; in liquid form”)
* jaʼ(o) (“to water”)
* jaʼaj (“to give water to; to water”)
* jaʼj (“to water”)
* jaʼnik (“to water”)
* jorona jaʼ (“cold water”)
* kʼiyibal jaʼ (“spring, fountain”)
* kʼo jaʼ ch-pam (“to have diarrhea”)
* -kʼoxil jaʼ (“well of water”)
* kokʼjaʼnik (“to drink”)
* nim -ib pa jaʼ (“to dive”)
* nim jaʼ (“river”)
* qʼän jaʼ (“blister”)
* qʼatbal jaʼ (“dam”)
* qʼor jaʼ (“atole”)
* qaj (ch-)xe jaʼ (“to sink”)
* qasaj jaʼ p-wiʼ (“to baptize by sprinkling”)
* qasaj xeʼ jaʼ (“to baptize; to submerge in water”)
* qasbal jaʼ (“rainy season”)
* relibal jaʼ (“fountain; spring”)
* -sibal jaʼ (“stream”)
* siwan be jaʼ (“ravine, gorge”)
* sutbal jaʼ (“whirlpool”)
* tix jaʼ ch-ij (“to water”)
* torbal jaʼ (“plug (to drain water)”)
* tzalam siwan p-turbal jaʼ (“waterfall”)
* tzaq jaʼ (“to sweat”)
* tzaya jaʼ (“brackish water”)
* u-qajibal jaʼ (“waterfall”)
* -uxlab jaʼ (“steam; water vapor”)
* wa jaʼ (“nourishment (general term for all food and drink”)
* -wo jaʼ (“flood; overflow of river”)

### References

* Allen J. Christenson, Kʼiche-English dictionary

## Kiliwa
### Noun

jaʼ
* Alternative form of ʼjaʼ

### References

* Arnulfo Estrada Ramírez, Leonor Farldow Espinoza, Diccionario práctico de la lengua kiliwa (2004, Instituto nacional de lenguas indígenas; Ensenada, B.C., Mexico)), page 106

## Lacandon
### Adjective

jaʼ
* water

### References

* Fisher, William Morrison (1973). Towards the Reconstruction of Proto-Yucatec, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago

## Mocho
### Noun

jaʼ
* water

### References

* Victor Juárez Jiménez, Itsʼbal chu tsʼiba we tookʼ didaaktika mochoʼ, Kabil siiklo, Gramática didáctica mochoʼ. Segundo ciclo (2013, México, INALI)

## Mopan Maya
### Noun

jaʼ
* water
* rain

#### Derived terms

* ok jaʼ (“river; current”)

### Adjective

jaʼ
* watery

### References

* Hofling, Charles Andrew (2011). Mopan Maya–Spanish–English Dictionary, University of Utah Press.

## Tabasco Chontal
### Noun

jaʼ
* water

### References

* Kathryn C. Keller, Diccionario Chontal de Tabasco, Summer Institute of Linguistics (1997), page 471

## Tojolabal
### Noun

jaʼ
* water

### References

* Carlos Lenkersdorf, Tojolabal para principiantes, lengua y cosmovision mayas en Chiapas (1994, México, CRT)

## Tzeltal
### Alternative forms

* haʼ (“obsolete”)
* haˀ (“obsolete”)

### Noun

jaʼ
* water
** Tzeltal language learning guide, page 11:
    Ya cuchʼ jaʼI drink water

## Uspanteco
### Noun

jaʼ
* water

### References

* Miguel Angel Vicente Méndez, Diccionario bilingüe uspanteko-español, page 93, 2007

## Wastek
### Noun

jaʼ
* water

### References

* wordlist

## Yucatec Maya
### Alternative forms

* haʼ, obsolete
* haa, há (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Proto-Mayan *haʼ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈhaʔ]

### Noun

jaʼ (plural jaʼob)
* water
* rain
* lake

#### Derived terms

* kʼaaj jaʼ

### References

* Academia de la Lengua Maya de Yucatán, A. C. (2003) Diccionario maya popular: Maya-español, español-maya (in Spanish), →ISBN, page 69: “JAʼ”
* Barrera Vásquez, Alfredo et al. (1980) Diccionario maya Cordemex: Maya-español, español-maya (in Spanish), Mérida: Ediciones Cordemex, page 165: “HAʼ”
* Beltrán de Santa Rosa María, Pedro (1746) Arte de el idioma maya reducido a succintas reglas, y semilexicon yucateco (in Spanish), Mexico: Por la Biuda de D. Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, page 178: “Agua. .... Haa.”
* Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 57: “haʼ”
* Pío Pérez, Juan (1866–1877) Diccionario de la lengua maya (in Spanish), Mérida de Yucatán: Imprenta literaria, de Juan F. Molina Solís, page 105: “HÁ: agua”